Very few users need Windows XP Pro, about the only reason to get it is if your university allows you to interface with their file servers, none of the schools I have been to allow that. In fact many of the schools I visited were still using Netware for some reason.
Actually there is nothing in the Anti-Trust laws (at least the US ones) that legally prevent them from having to remove the components, it's if they abuse the monopoly, for example preventing other media players from installing, or making contracts like they did in the early days, that prevent bundling. Thats what Microsoft was guilty of in their previous anti-trust case.
And the user is forced to use the Windows version and effectively prohibited from using any other.
Even if you "disable" the Microsoft component you're still FORCED to use it in conjuction with other software.
Nobody is forcing the developers to use that components, they use it by choice, and nobody is forcing the user to use those programs either. Nothing is being forced, people go for the path of least resistance, Microsoft provides that path.
Actually, they can, they may not be able to strip every part of the Microsoft product from the OS, but they are perfectly able to install, and make default any of those applications. You can also turn off completely the competing Microsoft program by unselecting "Enable Access to this program." All this is easily done with the OPK tools that any computer company that orders 3 or more packs of Windows, is a Microsoft Partner, or is an MSDN subscriber, and uses Microsoft OEM software.
A total stripping just wouldn't be possible because I find many of the same DLLs are used by the competing programs, for example Winamp though having it's own content playing files, uses the IE files (if I remember correctly) to display stuff in the built in mini-browser (something I never understood). Developers have come to rely on these built in components, last thing Windows needs is dependency hell that you get sometimes with the *nixs.
I know for a fact that Compaq used the OPK, because recently when reimaging a customers machine after a hard drive crash, the OPK menu came up when that machine booted up, Compaq forgot to press the seal button before they sent the image off to mass production.
Why would you move? Generally speaking a 1.0 application with run on the 2.0 framework, and if it doesn't you can install the 1.0 framework on the machine, and it will run side by side with the 2.0 framework, with the programs select the correct framework, of course this behavior can be altered by the administrator of the machine.
Not only that, but they offer free-readers for the three corner stones (Excel, Word, and Powerpoint) of the office suite. Microsoft is out to make money, but they know if people with the same program can't read and write a document they are going to lose customers. The only think that the higher prices suites have in them are more applications, not a more feature rich version of the application.
Hot fixes do cause issues, but it's very very rare. In all I have seen maybe a handful of computers, (three that I can remember off the top of my head) that reacted negatively to a Microsoft hot fix since Windows 2000 was released.
Though I agree that there should be a new Trek set 20-30 years in the future, I don't think it should be based on the TOS and TNG format. I think that DS9 and Babylon 5 has moved SciFi into a more gritty area, I like the story arches that span more then one episode, it gives you more depth into the charecters because you can explorer their flaws a little more. Enterprise started to do this toward the end of the show, but it was too late to save it because the people were already tuning out.
It would need work to make it seamless for the user, first the kiosks should be for visitors only. Second each employee would get a wireless device, or a RFID name badge (with privacy protector for off work hours) if it's a locked down elevator and people are only allowed to exit on one floor (I worked in a building like this). The device would have either a 10 key pad with a cheap monochrome LCD display, they could enter their desired floor or have a quick access button for their normal work floor.
Another thing I would consider is to have a thermal imager, or something similar to count the number of people to prevent people from entering a large amount of people for a single floor in hopes for a private car, of course I would have it set to only use it when a certain threshold is reached (ie 4 of more entries for the same floor within a couple of minutes of each other).
It depends on how the aircraft was obtained. We have gotten a number of aircraft from the Israelis that they captured during their wars with their neighbors, others we outright purchased. Many of the aircraft used for Have Doughnut were obtained from the Israelis, they were later returned.
Of the known programs for testing Migs, Have Doughnut, Have Drill, and Have Ferry only one aircraft was obtained via clandestine methods. At least that we known of. The US still keeps it a secret what nations we obtain the aircraft.
ODF doesn't equal open source, any program can support ODF be it open or closed source. It simply documents the interface. Chances are MS will offer a converter and a setting to use ODF as default to the MA government and keep the contract. I don't believe this will change anything.
1. Widescreen X86 iBook - This one is obviously going to happen, but probably not now. Apple will drop 4:3 format entirely, as will the rest of the world (showing they are, as always, technology leaders). They just won't cannibalize Powerbook sales with iBooks until they have milked it long enough.
Apple wouldn't be a leader there, just about every other company has a wide screen laptop, I think Apple is one of the few that doesn't.
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SPI firewalls aren't meant for application filtering, on my company servers I just blocked WMF files at the Exchange server, and set our ISA Servers to block WMF from websites also. Company policy already blocks the various IM clients.
I imagine that I could push out the deregistering fix, and associating WMF with Notepad, but that seems a little extreme because our attack vector has become limited, and our anti-virus is now updated with the newest signatures that detect this exploit.
And some of us think it's insane just voting for a party, because you aren't close to the person you are putting into office. I have voted from Democrats locally before, because I didn't like the politics or the attitude of the Republican candidate.
And yes I know that it is different country to country, direct PR in countries like Germany I just couldn't stand, because it's all or nothing on the party side of the ballot. In the UK you have some control of who you vote for, but even then the party can move candidates in and out of districts, so the person you are voting for may not know the unique issues of the town you are living in.
Our system is a system that balances the states of our country, we are a vast country, that is much larger then all of Europe, if we went to a system like that you wouldn't see the Presidential candidates leave the city, whats the points of courting the rural votes when all they have to win if a couple of the major cities.
Each system has it pros and cons, and was built for the unique political, geographical, and economic situation of the country.
3 seconds, not really, lets say you have someone on site, you have 1 second delay from location to central facility, 7 seconds for content filtering, 1 more second to get it to the stations or to the consumer if you are accessing the feed from the bird directly. If you are access via a station, you have another second for them to receive and broadcast it, or 2-3 seconds if it's going back up to DirecTV bird and to the facility. I figure that 10 seconds would be close to average, even if you access to feed off the satellite.
Sat delays along with buffer so they can dump profanity can build up the time difference.
Last year during the Superbowl it was noticeable at my house, I had 3 TVs tuned to the game, 2 via DirecTV and another using rabbit ears, the over the air broadcast was easily 2-3 seconds ahead of the DTV broadcast. This is one of the reasons that the Sport Betting Houses that allow betting up until play completion don't allow cellphones, because you could have someone watching via a faster source or at the game itself, feeding you what's going to happen.
I see the issue in being the old Army vs Army Air Forces budget issue. When the Air Force was part of the Army cost overruns by the Army projects would effect Air Force projects. I think that my separating the ATO from the FAA, and give it their own budget, at least they can't blame a lack of budget when facility MX falls below expected levels.
Most everything else except long term development could stay within the FAA, because it goes along with their regulatory role.
Question of the day would be if that was done for fun, or not? There are a number of times when government forms are submitted for shits and giggles. During the Christmas Season 2001, the EAA filed for a waiver for Santa, which was granted.
As a regulation body, the FAA does a very good job, in fact I think it's one of the few government organization that actually listens to the public, very few rash rulings, public comment on almost all changes to regulations, and new regs well before they are implemented. Their education branch is very good also, my local FSDO is always running interesting, and informative sessions on safety of flight, and changes in regulations, along with partnering with the AOPA ASF. Enforcement is a little hit or miss, but is overall good.
Where the FAA has failed has been facility mx. Because of safety of flight it takes years for systems to get vetted and out into the field, by then they are obsolete, or the idea is so far out, it never makes it off the drawing board. I think thats why you are seeing NASA more and more involved in the far out ideas, and the FAA coming back to it's more traditional role.
I think that the FAA should stick with regulation, enforcement, and short term advocacy of flight, it should off load the long term ideas to NASA, and there should be a separate agency that manages ATC, with it's own budget. The FAA would still have regulation and enforcement over that ATC agency, but wouldn't be funding them.
The GPS system isn't used for anything other than long distance navigation, and even then, normally only secondarily to more traditional navigation aids. When it comes to aircraft moving around airports, and taking off and landing, that 20m inaccuracy can become very dangerous. The 1cm accuracy is closer to what would be needed to be "safe".
Correct, but dated, WAAS approaches are being certified down to CAT I levels. Word is that LAAS approaches might allow CAT IIIb level approaches.
Anyways never really got the hub bub about this system, the US discontinued the use of SA in 2000, because aviation has become utterly dependent on GPS (the current FAA plan includes only supplements to GPS when the current VOR system is decommissioned). Also our birds have many of the same capabilities, I believe we have 12 in orbit currently that are of the new spec, we just don't have different scales for pay use and such.
A number of your comments are on features are ones that Microsoft makes available for it's commercial product. One thing you got to compare is that the Express products is not made for a commercial coding environment.
Others I have not had any issues with, integrating other libraries and such.
The company I work for had a hell of a time hiring a C# developer with any experience.
I had quite the opposite recently when I had to do interviews for a new programmer. About 75% of our resumes were way too overqualified, and most had extensive C# experience.
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Very few users need Windows XP Pro, about the only reason to get it is if your university allows you to interface with their file servers, none of the schools I have been to allow that. In fact many of the schools I visited were still using Netware for some reason.
Actually there is nothing in the Anti-Trust laws (at least the US ones) that legally prevent them from having to remove the components, it's if they abuse the monopoly, for example preventing other media players from installing, or making contracts like they did in the early days, that prevent bundling. Thats what Microsoft was guilty of in their previous anti-trust case.
Even if you "disable" the Microsoft component you're still FORCED to use it in conjuction with other software.
Nobody is forcing the developers to use that components, they use it by choice, and nobody is forcing the user to use those programs either. Nothing is being forced, people go for the path of least resistance, Microsoft provides that path.
A total stripping just wouldn't be possible because I find many of the same DLLs are used by the competing programs, for example Winamp though having it's own content playing files, uses the IE files (if I remember correctly) to display stuff in the built in mini-browser (something I never understood). Developers have come to rely on these built in components, last thing Windows needs is dependency hell that you get sometimes with the *nixs.
I know for a fact that Compaq used the OPK, because recently when reimaging a customers machine after a hard drive crash, the OPK menu came up when that machine booted up, Compaq forgot to press the seal button before they sent the image off to mass production.
Why would you move? Generally speaking a 1.0 application with run on the 2.0 framework, and if it doesn't you can install the 1.0 framework on the machine, and it will run side by side with the 2.0 framework, with the programs select the correct framework, of course this behavior can be altered by the administrator of the machine.
I don't remember ever applying for a job in New York.
Not only that, but they offer free-readers for the three corner stones (Excel, Word, and Powerpoint) of the office suite. Microsoft is out to make money, but they know if people with the same program can't read and write a document they are going to lose customers. The only think that the higher prices suites have in them are more applications, not a more feature rich version of the application.
Hot fixes do cause issues, but it's very very rare. In all I have seen maybe a handful of computers, (three that I can remember off the top of my head) that reacted negatively to a Microsoft hot fix since Windows 2000 was released.
Though I agree that there should be a new Trek set 20-30 years in the future, I don't think it should be based on the TOS and TNG format. I think that DS9 and Babylon 5 has moved SciFi into a more gritty area, I like the story arches that span more then one episode, it gives you more depth into the charecters because you can explorer their flaws a little more. Enterprise started to do this toward the end of the show, but it was too late to save it because the people were already tuning out.
Another thing I would consider is to have a thermal imager, or something similar to count the number of people to prevent people from entering a large amount of people for a single floor in hopes for a private car, of course I would have it set to only use it when a certain threshold is reached (ie 4 of more entries for the same floor within a couple of minutes of each other).
Of the known programs for testing Migs, Have Doughnut, Have Drill, and Have Ferry only one aircraft was obtained via clandestine methods. At least that we known of. The US still keeps it a secret what nations we obtain the aircraft.
ODF doesn't equal open source, any program can support ODF be it open or closed source. It simply documents the interface. Chances are MS will offer a converter and a setting to use ODF as default to the MA government and keep the contract. I don't believe this will change anything.
Apple wouldn't be a leader there, just about every other company has a wide screen laptop, I think Apple is one of the few that doesn't.
I imagine that I could push out the deregistering fix, and associating WMF with Notepad, but that seems a little extreme because our attack vector has become limited, and our anti-virus is now updated with the newest signatures that detect this exploit.
And yes I know that it is different country to country, direct PR in countries like Germany I just couldn't stand, because it's all or nothing on the party side of the ballot. In the UK you have some control of who you vote for, but even then the party can move candidates in and out of districts, so the person you are voting for may not know the unique issues of the town you are living in.
Our system is a system that balances the states of our country, we are a vast country, that is much larger then all of Europe, if we went to a system like that you wouldn't see the Presidential candidates leave the city, whats the points of courting the rural votes when all they have to win if a couple of the major cities.
Each system has it pros and cons, and was built for the unique political, geographical, and economic situation of the country.
3 seconds, not really, lets say you have someone on site, you have 1 second delay from location to central facility, 7 seconds for content filtering, 1 more second to get it to the stations or to the consumer if you are accessing the feed from the bird directly. If you are access via a station, you have another second for them to receive and broadcast it, or 2-3 seconds if it's going back up to DirecTV bird and to the facility. I figure that 10 seconds would be close to average, even if you access to feed off the satellite.
Last year during the Superbowl it was noticeable at my house, I had 3 TVs tuned to the game, 2 via DirecTV and another using rabbit ears, the over the air broadcast was easily 2-3 seconds ahead of the DTV broadcast. This is one of the reasons that the Sport Betting Houses that allow betting up until play completion don't allow cellphones, because you could have someone watching via a faster source or at the game itself, feeding you what's going to happen.
Most everything else except long term development could stay within the FAA, because it goes along with their regulatory role.
Question of the day would be if that was done for fun, or not? There are a number of times when government forms are submitted for shits and giggles. During the Christmas Season 2001, the EAA filed for a waiver for Santa, which was granted.
Where the FAA has failed has been facility mx. Because of safety of flight it takes years for systems to get vetted and out into the field, by then they are obsolete, or the idea is so far out, it never makes it off the drawing board. I think thats why you are seeing NASA more and more involved in the far out ideas, and the FAA coming back to it's more traditional role.
I think that the FAA should stick with regulation, enforcement, and short term advocacy of flight, it should off load the long term ideas to NASA, and there should be a separate agency that manages ATC, with it's own budget. The FAA would still have regulation and enforcement over that ATC agency, but wouldn't be funding them.
Correct, but dated, WAAS approaches are being certified down to CAT I levels. Word is that LAAS approaches might allow CAT IIIb level approaches.
The European system is bring based on the WAAS supplementation system.
Anyways never really got the hub bub about this system, the US discontinued the use of SA in 2000, because aviation has become utterly dependent on GPS (the current FAA plan includes only supplements to GPS when the current VOR system is decommissioned). Also our birds have many of the same capabilities, I believe we have 12 in orbit currently that are of the new spec, we just don't have different scales for pay use and such.
Others I have not had any issues with, integrating other libraries and such.
I had quite the opposite recently when I had to do interviews for a new programmer. About 75% of our resumes were way too overqualified, and most had extensive C# experience.